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P. J. STBINWAL-D. DUST AND vASH REC'BPTACLE.

N0. 478,561. Patented Apr. 26, 1892.

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F. J. STEINWALD. DUST AND ASH REOEPTAGLE.

No. 473,561. Patented Apr. 26, 1892.

I I I L; A I 1 r UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANZ JOSEF STEINIVALD, OF DRESDEN, GERMANY.

nus-r AND ASH RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,561, dated April 26, 1892.. Application filed September 2. 1891- Serial No. 404,579. (No model.)

To cpl? 1072,0725 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANZ J OSEF STEIN- WALD, a subject of the King of Saxony, residing at Dresden, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dust and Ash Receptacles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has relation to receptacles for dust, ashes, garbage, and the like, and among the objects sought to be attained are, first, to provide a device of this class which will be simple and cheap in construction; secondly, to provide such a device which is adapted to receive refuse, dust, ashes, &c., and be conveniently transported to the point at which said refuse, &c., is to be deposited, thus insuring cleanliness and avoiding danger to health caused by escaping dust, deleterious odors, and the like, and, finally, to provide convenient means whereby the receptacles may be readily removed when full and empty ones put into place for receiving the material; and

with the above-recited objects in view the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 an end View, of the dust-bin arrangement. Fig. 3 is a section illustrating the arrangement of the hopper; and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of what is considered a particularly serviceable closing device for the improved portable dust-bins.

A, Figs. 1 and 2, is the frame-Work or cage provided with rails art, upon which by means of rollers or casters 1) b the dust-bins B may be moved from end to end. The funnel-shaped hopper is supported by two bent rods or bars 0 0, so connected with the rails a a that the rollers b b may pass the joints smoothly. (See Fig. 2.) One of these bent rods 0 carries the hinges cl, Figs. 1 and 3, upon which swings the hopper C, so that it may be turned back while a filled dust-bin is removed or a fresh one inserted instead. Within the hopper C are hinged or pivoted at e e flaps or wings f f, (see Fig. 3,) which springs g g constantly maintain against a stop or projection h. The neck of the funnel-shaped hopper reaches into the open bin 13, Fig. 3, so that while this bin swung round and the bin is withdrawn and closed.

For closing the bins Iprefer to use the arrangement shown in Figs. 4 and 5. To one of the hinged lids 1 overlapping and keeping down the other 0;, is pivoted a rod 70, which, when the handle 76' is depressed, engages its hook-shaped endswith the pins Z, provided on the bin B.

As regards the construction of the dustbins B,it may be mentioned that any suitable material-such as thin sheet-ironmay be employed for the purpose. The following is, however, the construction preferred: A frame is first constructed of angle-iron bars, between which are stretched sheets of wire-gauze with fine closely-set meshes. The wire-gauze first receives a preparatory varnish, which,in conjunction with the ashes, soon fills up the meshes, so that (as has been demonstrated by experience) no passage is afforded to the materials filled in, however fine. The main advantage of dust-bins of this construction is their lightness and comparative strength. For their more convenient handling they are provided with handles m m. The size of the frame-work and the number of bins depend upon circumstances. Details of construction may, besides, be modified to suit the requirements of each particular case without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim 1. In a device of the class described, the combination, with a suitable frame-work provided with a hopper and hinged lids or doors closing the bottom of the hopper, of a receptacle supported by said frame-work and adapted to be moved or slid upon the latter so as to occupy a position beneath the hopper, the receptacle being also adapted to be removed from said frame-work, said hinged lids or doors adapted to open downwardly within the receptacle and to automatically close in the manner described, for the purpose specified.

2. In a device of the class described, the

combination, with a suitable frame-Work provided with a hopper, of a receptacle adapted to be moved or slid upon said frame-Work into a position beneath the hopper and to be removed from said frame-work, as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination, with a suitable frame-Work provided with a hopper, of a series ofreceptacles adapted to be moved or slid upon said framework successively into position beneath the hopper and to be removed from the framework, as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination, with a suitable frame-work provided with a hopper hinged thereto and adaptto be swung thereupon in the manner described, of a receptacle supported by said frame-Work and adapted to be moved or slid upon the latter so as to occupy a position beneath the hopper and to be removed from the frame when the hopper has been swung upwardly, as and for the purpose specified.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination, with a suitable frame-work provided with a hopper and suitable guide-rails, of a receptacle provided with rollers traveling upon said guide-rails and adapted to occupy a position beneath the hopper, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

FRANZ J OSEF STEINWALD.

Witnesses:

OTTO WOLFE, HUGO DUMMERY. 

